Math with Bad DrawingsCartoon Archive

Circle Limerick

February 12, 2019

A limerick wondering whether a circle has one side or infinitely many tiny ones.

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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2019-02-12-circle-limerick/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Transcript

"A circle is easy to scrawl. / Or is it? I'm not sure at all. / I cannot decide: / does it have just one side, / or tons that are crazily small?" [a smooth circle; a puzzled figure; a circle made of tiny dots/segments]

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Geometry › CirclesGeometry › PolygonsSets & Infinity › InfinityCalculus › Limits
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Middle SchoolHigh School
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